Planning a trip to the Americas

[Occhidiangela]

Angel' date='Jan 5 2009, 04:04 PM' post='159298']
Hi all

A friend of mine and I decided to plan a trip somewhere in the Americas this summer. It'll be a limited stay of 2 weeks, so we really need to plan this well in order to get the most out of it. Also, we recognise our limitations as Scandinavians. Although we know of certain popular places to visit, we hardly possess the vast knowledge of your lands as Americans do, hence the thread.

Much obliged, gents and pretty ladies!:)

For America in Summer: Idaho and Montana for a purely American non urban experience. Both the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho and the Missouri Breaks of Montana are spectacularly American. I also recommend, for that trip if you take it, to read up on Lewis and Clark, the explorers who were some of the first European American sorts to show up out there, and who did it on behalf of President Jefferson. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an amazing undertaking. (Stephen AMbrose wrote a great book about it, Undaunted Courage.)

More urbanly, try San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle. If you do Seattle, Vancouver BC is Canada just over the border. I recommend against the North East due to personal prejudice, but Boston can be a great time. It surely can.

I'd love to see you, but Corpus Christi, Texas in the summer is so hot, my dear Swedish friend would melt. If you want to experience heat and humitidy like nobody in Sweden has, come down. I shall be your host. But I doubt you'll want to do that.

For the South Americas, I'd recommend Chile over Argentina. But again, I may be biased due to a couple of friends who are from there.

Other Summer destinations might include Lake Tahoe, California. Gorgeous country and gambling if you like it. Hiking if you like it. A lake if you like it. Sacramento airport a good way in, or San Francisco.

Bring money, nowhere is cheap anymore.

IMO, avoid Florida like the plague.

Also beautiful, albeit warm, is the Shanendoah Valley of Virginia and the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Drop Dead Beautiful.

Occhi